Interacting with someone of a higher social status or opposing political beliefs may increase paranoid interpretations of the other person’s actions, according to a new UK study by researchers at University College London (UCL).
Paranoia is the tendency to assume other people are trying to harm you when their actual motivations are unclear.
“Being alert to social danger is key to our survival, but our results suggest social difference alone encourages us to think that the other person...
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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/08/03/political-and-social-differences-can-encourage-paranoid-thinking/137549.html
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